This committee should have him here to testify about the war in Ukraine, the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Your actions prove different, Mr. Secretary.

This should not be a partisan issue because opioid abuse affects all Americans.

It is no plan. It is no plan.

I have no hope that--and I will follow decorum, Mr. Chairman. I won't say you are lying, I will just say you are untruthful. I have called for your removal, I will continue to call for it. What you are doing to this country through your…

If we are secure in our border, what is insecure?

It used to be, under the Trump administration, a thousand a day was alarming. Now we are having close to 585,000 people a month coming into this country.

Our own White House is killing Americans with fentanyl pouring across the border.

This is an invasion of this country and under your watch you are allowing it.

I am 100 percent in agreement about the concerns around vaping, particularly for youth.

If it were then Secretary Mayorkas should come here to testify about the crisis at the southern border.

I don't think this President has been to the border. I don't think the Vice President has been to the border.

We will not tolerate Mexico allowing drug trafficking organizations like the Sinaloa Cartel and CJNG to pour these deadly drugs into the U.S.

Let's not just talk about past litigation. Let's talk about the present and what we are going to do about it in the future.

The Biden administration has surged efforts to address this crisis.

This committee should have him here to explain why a teacher's union was allowed rewrite the CDC's school reopening guidance.

It is preceded only by COVID.

But today's hearing is not about how to end the opioid epidemic.

This committee should be where the Secretary of Energy comes to testify about rising gas prices.

we need to completely eliminate the Internal Revenue Service as we know it and go to a completely fair tax.

H.R. 25, the Fair Tax Act, is the solution.

If that is really an interest to all of us, then why don't we start that type of investigation with the person who says the buck stops with him, and that would be President Biden himself.

Sign the petition. Folks, have the courage to call your Congressman. And, folks, it is time, as Winston Churchill said: ``Sometimes doing your best is not good enough.'' We have to do what is required to close this border.

Well, first of all, thank you for organizing this discussion to inform the American people what is going on. As Andy has said, this President is willfully and directly causing this to happen to the American people. You are a…

It is not just the phones. What about the gas cards that are in the latest budget that the President had? What about that? Just to put some context to this, Texas, I think you have about 15 to 20 million people. South Carolina has 5.3…